Rio is not a sexy town; it is a copulating town… Going to bed with women is almost a national hobby with Brazilians; it is rather like cricket in England.
Places Quotes
Terrible Tragedy in the South Seas. Three million people trapped alive! (apocryphal newspaper headline, New Zealand Listener, April 1979)
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his […]
There is nothing soft about New Zealand, the country. It is very hard and sinewy, and will outlast many of those who try to alter it.
You know Malta, where there is more magnificence than comfort.
Not as bad as you might have expected. (suggested state motto for New Jersey)
The only bad thing about Spokane is that there’s nothing to do after 10 in the morning.
My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that’s the law.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.
